À la recherche du temps perdu

This novel, often referred to as 'In Search of Lost Time' in English, is a comprehensive work that delves into the narrator's memories and experiences from late 19th-century and early 20th-century high-society France.

It is renowned for its exploration of involuntary memory, as exemplified by the famous 'episode of the madeleine'.

The work is structured into seven volumes: 'Du côté de chez Swann', 'À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleur', 'Le Côté de Guermantes', 'Sodome et Gomorrhe', 'La Prisonnière', 'Albertine disparue', and 'Le Temps retrouvé'.

Proust began writing the novel in 1906 and continued until his death in 1922, with the last three volumes published posthumously.